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Amb Sullivan/Dr. Kissinger
2-27-73, 8:58 a. m.
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K:
Why was the plenary session cancelled tomorrow?
S:
Tomorrow? It was not cancelled, it never was scheduled.
The idea was that tomorrow would be the day in which there
would bilateral efforts to push along the drafting on the
K:
Now what you should do is call an urgent meeting with Thach.
S:
I am going to be in with Thach anyway. The question is should
we have at a higher level should we have the Secretary make
a meeting with Tho SO that it becomes public knowledge.
K:
What do you think?
S:
We are getting a lot of questions from the press as to what
our attitude is on the prisoners and we have been waiting for
some guidance from what you are going to take there. Are
you going to take a tough position, or are you going to
K:
Absolutely. We are going to take a very tough position.
S:
So it is a public position that you demand that they fulfill
and no conditions attached and all that sort of thing.
K:
That's right.
S:
Well we have to seem to be doing something here because there
are two questions: one, as to what McCloskey says to the press
on which we had no guidance yet and the second thing is whether
the Secretary should ask for and demand a meeting with
and we let it be known publicly and I think that probably needs
to be done.
K:
Why don't you wait until 11:00 when the President may say something.
S:
The President is going to say something at 11:00?
K:
He may.
S:
May, that's let's see what time are we now?
K:
That's two hours from now.
S:
Two hours from now?
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